working out at home; to quit or not? (storytime)

This is a question I ask myself on days when I’m struggling to complete my 30 minutes workout on Nike Training App at 6:30 in the

I like working out, I do, I feel great after a workout session. Not as happy as these 5 great Nigerian reads make me, but then, books are a different kind of high. I just don’t have enough willpower to get myself up every day to exercise inside of the house even with so much free time. An effect of the Covid-19.
So here’s my cycle; I go on a long, no exercise break for a while, and then one day after I’ve eaten a little too much, I notice that my jeans fit too tightly or some other tell like that. In most of these situations, I promptly

I mostly don’t stick to the diet and in all fairness, I keep up with the early workouts for at least two weeks, even on days when I don’t want to. Then one day in the third week, I skip a day. I may have overslept or just wasn’t up to it. I promise myself to make it up the next day. If I get up the next day, great. If I don’t, chances are, I won’t exercise the next day either. That is the end of that cycle, bye Nike Training App, till we meet again in a few months.
This start and stop routine
It didn’t start as the usual cycle does, so that’s something. I wanted to run, to try it out at least, and to be fit. I searched online for the best running apps, and I found this post on the best running apps. It made me go ahead to download the Nike Run Club.
My running episode
I went on a diet just before I started running. this time it was a proper achievable diet with guidelines of how I was going to eventually ease out of it and into a regular healthy eating habit. I started running a few months ago with Nike Run Club. It was amazing. There were even runs for days you don’t feel like running, the “I don’t wanna run, run”

Runners high is real, I can tell you that because I felt it. I was sticking to my diet, regardless of the very tasty temptations from my mum. Other runners in the area even already recognized me, and I always succeeded in getting out of bed every morning. My speed was picking up and my endurance level was increasing, all this and I’ve only just started. It felt great.
After my run one morning and I was about to start my day, I felt pain in my leg just below my left knee. The pain niggled me throughout the day and I felt that maybe I had pushed myself too much and decided to take a break the next day. The pain persisted through the next day and seeing as it was not just the usual muscle soreness, I turned to my good old friend, google.
Turns out it’s pretty common, especially in women. The diagnosis was runner’s knee and I didn’t know what to do. After perusing so many conflicting bits of advice online, the consensus was that I could continue running. Not as much as I usually do and at the same time properly taking precautions. This included stretching before running, maintaining proper running form, and icing my knee after running.

I followed all these guidelines but it only got worse. Kneeling or bending
Post Running
I don’t know which one hurt more, that I had to stop running or the runner’s knee. Running is an exercise that I fell in love with and was looking forward to share with the world (not just my sister and mom this time).
It took me one month to completely recover from the knee ache and now I feel good. I’m not on a diet anymore and now it feels like the running was just one of my cycles and now I’m mid-cycle. It isn’t though, because as soon as I’m able, I will find a way around this runner’s knee and get back to doing what I love.
You are the second person I’m telling about this, do you know? Okay, now maybe the 200th
Love, Tola.
Manlikekay
Nice!!! Sorry about the knee! Are you okay now? Also have you consider running just inside the compound, not necessarily long distance, could even be just 10 mins. I work out for 20 minutes everyday and I believe that’s something😁
TolaFalonipe
Aw snap, my compound isn’t really big. I’ll keep that in mind though. I’m completely fine now, thank you.
Toyosi Ogundusi
😂😂 Tola… Now I know what it’s called, I also had it during my dramatic arts initiation on BOTH KNEES! which is worse cos I didn’t even know that’s what it was but it really hurt, couldn’t really dance and mehn, it was horrible to squat for punishment. I thought it’d never go away but I’m a survivor ✌️
TolaFalonipe
We survived initiation! Of course, we’re survivors
Gbafun
I have the same experience as you and I always feel this pain all over my body(most my left hand). “The pain won’t last for more than a week”, they said… “it is because you are just getting started”… My dear, it didn’t turn out like that. Today makes it exactly two weeks that I stopped going to the gym. I replaced it with football though. Nice one up @TolaFalonipe
TolaFalonipe
I’m totally glad that you could fill it in with something else. As for what people say, our bodies are different and would react to various things differently.
Daniel Mor
Nothing good comes easy, not even a nice bod. Don’t be too intense. A consistent 0.2mile run every 3 days will put you in a better place than a 5mile run ‘whenever you feel like it’ would.
Good read!
Oyinwura
To achieve you need to be principled and stick to it I salute your courage more Auction to function
TolaFalonipe
Thank you!
Teena
It takes a lot of will power and determination to diet and exercise on your own. We fall and rise but ultimately we must keep fit so we keep pushing💪